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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Question for anyone that knows the answer.
After the race, McLaughlin shrugged his shoulders. "Well, that didn't work," he said. "We know the rest of the year now he'll run in dirt races. It's too bad he had to try the turf for the first time on that kind of a course."
My question is if McLaughlin thought it was the soft turf that was the problem, why is he giving up on grass racing now? Wouldn't it stand to reason that he might want to try running on a firm turf course before giving up on it?
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The full quote I found in Bloodhorse;
“It’s a shame that his first time on turf, the turf was yielding and since it was the last day of the meet it was pretty chewed up,” said trainer Kiarin McLaughlin. “But he just didn’t run well. This was an experiment. If he’d liked it, it would have given us more options. But we’ll probably go back to the dirt.”
If I had to guess, I would say that he called it a shame about the turf condition knowing that Jazil probably only was going to get one shot on it, and with that one shot he must show a real affinity for the surface, and that if he had his preference he would have preferred that this one shot come on a firm course because it probably would be more to Jazils liking.
Notice that he said that we'll "probably" go back to dirt. To me that doesn't mean that another turf try is totally ruled out.
Of course if McLaughlin had the benefit of your keen insights, he would know that he has a fraud on his hands, a pig, and would immediately just give up on the horse and apologize for wasting everyones time.